From: Seth Goldberg <Seth.Goldberg@Sun.COM>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PXEgrub development on grub2
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:20:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0909111710450.13483@oretfbsg.Jrfg.Fha.PBZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5d587fb0909111705we57a568u65a06e23f0e6e116@mail.gmail.com>
>
> Real hardware drivers should provide much better functionality than
> PXE (other firmwares may do better, though).
No argument there. For Solaris, the PXE firmware has proven reliable enough
for us not to investigate other alternatives. Sure, there are ranges of
PXE packet throughput between NICs of the same speed, but a few more
seconds of load time are no big deal. For what we need, PXE is sufficient.
--S
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-12 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 14:07 PXEgrub development on grub2 Lars Nooden
2009-09-09 14:11 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-09-09 14:13 ` Lars Nooden
2009-09-09 15:04 ` Michal Suchanek
2009-09-09 19:40 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-10 12:39 ` Michal Suchanek
2009-09-10 13:01 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-09-10 21:17 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-11 13:17 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-11 21:07 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-12 0:05 ` Michal Suchanek
2009-09-12 0:20 ` Seth Goldberg [this message]
2009-09-12 12:54 ` About firmware facilities Robert Millan
2009-09-13 20:54 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-14 15:32 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-14 18:57 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-14 19:11 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-09-14 20:12 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-14 20:47 ` Michal Suchanek
2009-09-14 20:49 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-14 23:23 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-14 23:43 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-14 23:56 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-15 0:28 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-15 1:06 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-15 8:59 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-15 16:01 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-19 14:06 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-20 9:04 ` Brendan Trotter
2009-09-20 10:38 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-19 21:07 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-10 18:59 ` PXEgrub development on grub2 Robert Millan
2009-09-17 22:39 ` Joey Korkames
2009-09-18 6:19 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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